3. Optical Fibres, Cables and Fibre Devices
- Optical fiber design, fabrication, installations, and maintenance
- Optical fiber characterization and measurement techniques
- Photonic crystal fibers and related topics
- Polymer fibers, non-silica fibers, and multi-material fibers
- Fibers for interconnects, interfacing between optical fiber and planar devices
- Propagation, dispersion, and polarization related effects in fibers, waveguides, and free space
- Nonlinear effects, scattering, and propagation related transmission impairments in optical fibers
- Active/passive multi-core/mode optical fibers for special mode multiplexing
- Multi-core/mode fiber devices, passive and active
- Fibers for high power laser generation and transmission
- Raman and Brillouin fiber amplifiers
- Fiber lasers
- Optical parametric fiber amplifiers, phase-sensitive amplification, and their applications
- Fiberoptic devices and applications such as biomedical, sensing, astrophotonic and so on
- Optical fibres for improved transmission performance
- Fibres for new wavelength ranges
- Microstructured fibre
- Fibres for improved energy efficiency
- Other novel fiber devices